You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course. — Anne Lamott Hurdle Copy Share Image
Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. — Anne Lamott Caffeine Copy Share Image
“And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.” — Anne Lamott Dawned Copy Share Image
“I know a person with a Ph.D. who goes to a church based on Star Wars: May the force be with you.” — Anne Lamott Person Copy Share Image
“I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.” — Anne Lamott Greek tragedy Copy Share Image
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. — Anne Lamott Apples Copy Share Image
If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. — Anne Lamott Big picture Copy Share Image
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment.” — Anne Lamott Anger Copy Share Image
“By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.” — Anne Lamott Deteriorating Copy Share Image
Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there… — Anne Lamott Different Copy Share Image
This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and… — Anne Lamott Awakening Copy Share Image
My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think… — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who… — Anne Lamott Begin Copy Share Image
“They ask that we pray for their families, and for kinder leaders, and for the homeless, and people with AIDS, and people… — Anne Lamott Family Copy Share Image
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope… — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline… But also every single… — Anne Lamott Break Copy Share Image
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the… — Anne Lamott Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The best way to get quiet, other than the combination of extensive therapy, Prozac, and a lobotomy, is first to notice that… — Anne Lamott Mental health Copy Share Image
“Nell's husband has short-man syndrome. Eddie is one of those deadly dull people who is so upbeat that I suspect he would… — Anne Lamott Computers Copy Share Image
“...I had to learn new skills. One was to no longer pretend not to see what was going on. ... I was… — Anne Lamott New skills Copy Share Image
“It made no sense that Abraham could head for the mountain in Moriah still believing in God's goodness. It made no sense… — Anne Lamott Abraham Copy Share Image
“And autumn ain't so shabby for wow, either. The colors are broccoli and flame and fox fur. The tang is apples, death,… — anne lamott Autumn Copy Share Image
“Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the pebbles or sandy floor that contain… — Anne Lamott Foundation Copy Share Image
“These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office: "What is the knocking? What is the knocking at… — Anne Lamott Angel Copy Share Image
Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow,… — Anne Lamott Awe Copy Share Image
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image